Where Islam spreads, freedom dies

François Blaquart, national technical director of the French Football Federation (FFF), has been suspended from his post as a result of the race scandal enveloping French football. The magazine Mediapart broke the story, claiming that senior figures in the French footballing hierarchy plotted to create minimum quotas for white people at French football academies.

Contemplating the ongoing saga of the North African savages who have made their way into Italy, then into France and some of whom are now apparently contemplating an onward journey to Britain, the overwhelmingly dysfunctional nature of the immigration-handling system becomes obvious. There are many aspects to this dysfunction, but clearly one of the most critical is that illegal immigrants themselves face no punishment for having broken the rules. Under an EU agreement, when the migrants have entered one EU country from another EU country, they are simply returned to the country from which they came. They can then come straight back in. Some of the Tunisian savages camped out in northern Italy, close to the border with France, have been caught and forced back by French police multiple times. They may get a whack or two from a baton, but this is informal, unapproved and ineffective.

Illegal immigrants must face punishment which is sufficiently intimidating as to constitute a genuine deterrent. Italy had made it a criminal offence for an illegal immigrant to remain in Italy after having been given a notice to quit the country. The offence was punishable by up to four years in prison. This week the EU Court of Justice decreed that the legislation was contrary to EU rules, however.

Italy cannot punish illegal migrants with jail, the European Union's Court of Justice said on Thursday. The ruling struck down a key piece of legislation passed by the Italian government to bolster the hardline immigration policies it pledged to implement while in office.

The EU Court of Justice ruled that jailing migrants contradicts an EU directive whose main objective is "to set up an effective policy to drive out and repatriate third country nationals whose stay (in the EU) is irregular, while respecting their fundamental rights," the court said in a statement.

The court is tasked with ensuring that EU directives are interpreted and applied in the same way in all EU countries.

Under Italy's 2009 law, migrants who enter Italy illegally and refuse to leave face a prison sentence of from one to four years and fines of up to 10,000 euros, followed by immediate expulsion.

A Italian court in the northern city of Trento had referred to the EU court the case of an Algerian, Hassen El Dridi, who in 2010 was ordered to leave Italy within five days because he did not have a residence permit.

El Dridi ignored the court order and was given a one-year jail term which El Dridi appealed.

The EU court said that following its ruling, judges in Trento should "disapply" the jail terms contained in Italy's immigration legislation.

Italy intends to appeal the decision. In any case, it's hard to see how jailing illegal immigrants can be an effective solution. The UK's prison system has a capacity to accommodate about 100,000 inmates and is already close to its maximum. Even conservative estimates put the number of illegal immigrants at around 500,000 and the real figure may well be several million. Clearly, it is simply not possible to imprison a significant proportion of the illegal immigrant population. Even if it were possible, it would simply add to the cost burden of the taxpayer. While in prison, Britain would have a duty of care to the illegals and they would no doubt be able to access a range of health care services.

The punishment must be one that has little or no expense for the taxpayer and that at the same time constitutes a serious deterrent. This suggests some form of corporal punishment. Exposing illegal immigrants to public obloquy in a revival of the medieval stockades system would be one option. Whipping would be another. Both have problems, though. They are both somewhat prolonged, could give rise to sympathy for the immigrants, and could create problems if the immigrants suffer medical problems as a result of the punishment.

In my view the optimal form of punishment for illegal immigration is branding. The illegals should be branded on the forehead. This is quick, cheap and has the added advantage of allowing re-entrants to be easily identified. Branding is essentially harmless but, at the same time, would be feared by the illegal immigrants because of the shame and humiliation it would bring, as well as the damage to their personal appearance.

It may seem harsh but all of the problems we currently face with regard to the migration of aliens result from an excess of compassion which is being exploited by the unscrupulous. There is no way out of our present predicament that does not involve toughening up.

The Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is to establish a foundation that will offer an annual prize to those who have served the cause of free speech in the face of adversity.

Once a year, the Board and an Advisory Board nominate five candidates for the prize: the Westergaard Award — a winner will be announced around November / December and a subsequent award ceremony is to take place.

The nominees will all be people who have shown the courage to stand up agains oppression. People who for example through poems, movies, by painting, singing, in theatrical or other artistic creativity showed persistence to remain true to their beliefs notwithstanding violence, prosecution, death threats, etc.

Copies of the Kurt Westergaard's drawing shown above will be sold to raise the initial finance for the foundation. As well as an annual prize, the foundation may offer advice and information to those who are or may find themselves in difficulties because of their exercise of free speech, especially when that free speech relates to our Mohammedan friends.

The website of the Westergaard Foundation will eventually be here but it is not currently available.

The Guardian has predictably picked up the story I blogged about yesterday involving quotas that were introduced to try and increase the number of white football players at football academies in France.

We know that lefties are constantly complaining that brown people are underrepresented in managerial positions or in politics and the like, or as students at Oxford as Dave absurdly claimed recently. They insist that whatever institution or profession they are targeting should "look like the country", and often hint that quotas for brown people may have to be introduced to make that a reality.

But look at any picture of a recent French national football team. Does it look like the country? No, it doesn't. France is pretty far gone, but it's not that far gone...yet. It's clearly difficult for French people to get fully behind their national team when it doesn't "look like the country". And there are indications that the lack of white players may, in part, be the result of prejudice. The brown-skinned former footballer, Vikash Dhorasoo, who played for the French national team, said this:

The little white guy who shows up finds himself in a scene where there are clans, gangs, and at a certain point he stops playing football because he sees that he has no place there, and that he's not going to be protected if there is a problem.

Because of this anti-white racism, and because the French football team no longer looks like France, it seems to me that the Guardianista crowd ought to be supportive of Laurent Blanc in his desire to introduce pro-white quotas into football, and should be calling for similar arrangements to be introduced in England and perhaps even extended to other forms of sport, too.

There was one interesting detail in the Guardian story. Apparently, until Laurent Blanc became the team manager, the French football team was eating only halal food! Blanc put a stop to it.

German police have arrested three Mohammedan terrorists and recovered a large quantity of explosives. It is believed that the three savages, Moroccans, some or all of whom are reported to have had German nationality, may have intended to target the Eurovision Song Contest, due to be held in Düsseldorf on 14 May.

This news clip (in French though some of the interviews can be heard in English) shows the area of west London where Kate Middleton's mother grew up. It has been completely colonised by Pakis. The actual house where she lived, in 57 Clarence Street, is now occupied by a smiling Punjabi, who is interviewed. The reporter notes that it used to be a white working-class area, but there are now no members of the white working class living there.

The bomb struck a tourist haunt. Of the 16 people killed, 8 were French, one was Dutch, two were Swiss, two were Russian and two were Tunisian. Of the 23 wounded, 18 were foreigners.

The Moroccan king, Mohammed VI, recently released a lot of jihadist wackjobs from prison to calm the anger of "dissidents" who want to see an Egypt-style revolution there. Yesterday's attack was almost certainly orchestrated by some of these recently released. Nice one, Mohammed!

The EU, in the form of the Council of the European Union’s Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP), is planning to create a Chinese-style firewall that would "create a virtual Schengen Area" and filter out "illicit material" at the boundaries of this virtual bloc.

There would be “virtual access points" whereby “the Internet Service Providers would block illicit contents on the basis of the EU ‘black-list’”.

Of course they will justify this by saying they need to block out child porn sites, then, when it's up and running add, "Oh, of course, we need to stop racism and islamophobia too."

Campaigning in Leicester recently, I have been shocked to discover the quanta of those from Islamic backgrounds on one form of a benefit to another. Islamic culture inherently rejects the Western way of life, more specifically the Protestant work ethic that has successfully built the economies of the West. It is also fundamentally socially intolerant, closing itself off to the rest of society and local communities and forming ghettos that are economically dysfunctional and ethically espouse, perhaps without realising it, intolerance that undermines both social and human capital.

For large numbers of Muslims to be coming into the country on William Hague’s plan must send alarm bells running in the heads of those few who are, now, even moderately patriotic in the Conservative party and in other parts of the country (UKIP are a million miles ahead of the other parties on this issue). The beauty of the English countryside made so picturesque by the steeples of churches and pleasant fields, so elegantly espoused by Blake and others, stands to be debilitated by gargantuan mosques that are spouting within their closed doors ideology that would make any rational human being, with an iota of sense, in the Enlightened West feel queasy. At present, as the pubs run dry and empty under the smoking ban and the mosques continue to fill, the debate has to move from the mere niceties of tolerance towards a fundamental political effort towards saving the national identity. This requires courage and I ask all of us that love this country and its unique heritage of freedom not to ignore, particularly as the Muslim birth rate in the UK is continuing to rise and the potential for dependency on benefits may become generational within that community due to its self-imposed social exclusion. Further there continues to be a proliferation of the intoleration that Islamic ideology has brought into our country, that incidents of gay bashing in the Tower Hamlets demonstrate.

The increase of Islam in the UK is going to be a problem for the welfare state. For example, unemployment among Moroccan and Turkish communities in the Netherlands is higher than the national average: (2006 study by The Netherland's Social and Cultural Planning Office). In the UK, the important Institute from Public Policy Research study showed that immigrants from many Muslim countries (especially Somalia, Turkey, Bangladesh and Iran) are far less likely to be employed and claim benefits than those from non-muslim nations such as Zimbabwe, Poland and India. The UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission’s own figures show: “Half of Muslim men and three quarters of Muslim women are unemployed in the UK". Muslim husbands in the UK with more than one wife to get extra benefits as ministers recognise polygamy (original source Taxpayers’ Alliance). Further a recent study of the 70,000 strong Somali immigrant community in the London Borough of Camden showed unemployment of over 75%. Actual unemployment in war torn failed state Somalia itself, is 47%. A removal of multi-culturalism, and assimilation of these people needs to done to save them from the abyss of exclusion and welfare. Above all, one should not shy away of contemplating deportation for new arrivals who do not work, or threatening it to further assimilation and an effort to find work.

The courageous Geert Wilder’s in Holland has understood the link between Islamification of his country and the increase in intoleration in his homeland. A theological system that fundamentally encourages discrimination between those who believe it and those who don’t, treating the latter as second-class citizens, is backward. A system that treats women as slaves without chains is morally flawed and degenerate in its treatment of women. Cultural practices in many parts of the world which include child marriages and the death penalty for practising homosexuality are reminders that man is capable of going back to the dark ages very quickly. As the classic Channel 4 documentary ‘Undercover mosque’ showed, these cultural habits are espoused passionately in mosques in this country. Cameron and others do nothing to swat this fly on its head. Why should Britain, the country that fathered the modern world, put up with this, as Wilder’s put it, ‘retarded ideology’. We do not need to ban the Koran as Wilder’s suggests, but we do need to put such ideas to the sword through the vehicle of rational debate and exercise our legislative competence in Parliament to curb them. This our media and politicians have not done so far, allowing this ideology, that suffocates its own followers, to proliferate. If we cannot emancipate them to reason, and into mainstream education and society, how can we deal with the extraordinarily high rate of unemployment and lack of opportunities amongst these people and curb the increasing burden on the welfare state?

This is one fight for which I, as a member of UKIP, am not going to shy away from. I will fight this growth of intoleration and social ostracisation of Islam that is harming this country and its people (Muslims included), whose historically proven attributes of tolerance, creativity, kindness and moving generosity are at risk from the proliferation of this ideology. It will be possible to win this fight, I believe, as the one we have launched against the tyranny of the European Union, as no people on earth love liberty as much as us British.

He is an Indian! His name is Abhijit P.G. Pandya. This may actually be helpful, however, as it makes it impossible for the establishment to accuse him of racism.

It is being reported today that French football directors secretly approved pro-white quotas at French football academies last year. They reportedly wanted fewer blacks and Arabs and a desired figure of 30% white was mentioned (which shows how far France has gone).

Ironically, the name of the principal director who allegedly approved the policy is Laurent Blanc. "Blanc" means "White" in French.

A spokesman for the French football federation has denied that such blatant discrimination was practised or approved. He did, however, note that many "young people" in France, including those training at the academies, had double nationality and had no wish to play for France. France trained them, only for them eventually to play for another team, he said.

An official report in Denmark has stated that the gradual tightening of immigration restrictions in Denmark since 2002 is now saving the country 5.1 billion kroner per year (683 million euros). As a result, the Danish integration minister Søren Pind has announced plans to make the restrictions even more severe.

As in the report recently released in France, the Danish report confirms that third-world immigration represents a net economic drain on a country, while immigration from other civilised countries is economically beneficial. Non-western immigrants cost Denmark 15.7 billion kroner per year while western immigrants make a net contribution of 2.2 billion kroner.

When you look at what is happening in Denmark, it is so strange to see a European government actually pursuing rational policies, differentiating between different types of immigrant and attempting to keep out those who bring no benefit to the country.

The Belgian parliament initially approved a burka ban last year but the collapse of the government caused the legislation to lapse. So a new burka ban bill was introduced and has just been voted in almost unanimously. Only 1 MP voted against the measure and there were 2 abstentions.

Marine Le Pen's website was hacked by Muslims twice in the last 24 hours. This morning, instead of the normal content, it displayed the image shown above then redirected to the Wikipedia page on "Racism".

In the previous hack, it showed a picture of a Muslim woman wearing a burka and displayed the following message while playing Arab music:

The site was hacked in response to the consideration you have for the Muslim woman in France. Who are you to speak of the pure and chaste Muslim woman? Today your site has been hacked. The day you assume a seat in government, all French servers will be cut off.

A study published today by the French National Statistics Agency (INSEE) confirms what is already blindingly obvious to anyone with a clue. Immigration from third-world countries impoverishes the European countries that experience it; while immigration from other European countries is economically beneficial. The impoverishment from third-world immigration is not a temporary phenomenon. It does not relate only to the immigrants themselves, but to their descendants also.

According to the report, 10.6% of French people whose parents were French live below the poverty threshold (60% of average income), while 28.5% of immigrants do and 21.1% of people born in France to immigrant parents.

There are sharp differences in the economic prospects of those descended from immigrants depending on where the immigration was from. Only a negligible 1% difference in income levels was found between those born to French parents and those born to one or more parents who had immigrated from another European country. If the immigration had been from Africa, however, the difference was 30%. In fact, after the age of 25, those who immigrant parents from other European countries had an income 6% above the French norm. So these people were positively contributing to French prosperity and helping to offset the negative effects of non-European immigrants and their descendants, who were lowering the per capita GDP of France simply by being there.

Note that these figures relate only to metropolitan France (i.e. it excludes the distant third-world territories that are considered part of France) and because of provisional restrictions that expire soon, France has not experienced much immigration from Eastern Europe.

Two ancient stone figures on the church of San Esteban in Burgos, Spain, were decapitated two nights ago. This is part of a consistent pattern of attacks on symbols of Christian heritage all over Europe. Any idea who could be responsible?

Shop-owners in Ventimiglia, which is close to the Italian border with France, have launched a petition to close down the "refugee centre" in the city. They claim that business has fallen by 30% since the North African savages started arriving. French tourists are no longer interested in going there, it seems.

Meanwhile, in Paris, police have started to round up the hundreds of mostly Tunisian savages now living on the streets. The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, who himself was born in Tunisia, has pronounced himself "shocked" by this action. He had previously announced a generous programme of assistance for the savages, which would have included hotel accommodation. The arrests started only hours later, so it may have been the bizarre, utopian extremism of his statement that forced the government's hand.

This is an extraordinary propaganda film financed by the Qatar Foundation (founded by the emir of Qatar). It was broadcast on Euronews and attempts to demonstrate what a wonderful thing immigration is. Three segments are shown: in Rinkeby in Sweden, South Korea and Riace in Italy. Notice that the European segments show a school and a town being taken over by third-world immigrants (mostly Muslims) while in the South Korean segment the "immigrants" are ... North Koreans!

Riace is a town in Italy whose young people have left to find work elsewhere. Its population was dwindling and consisted disproportionately of elderly people. The mayor decided on a strategy of welcoming third world immigrants to rejuvenate it.

Le Monde picks up the story about the Italian village, Riace, today to propagandise for immigration. How long before the Guardian does the same? The article in Le Monde contains an almost surreal detail. Because there is sometimes a delay in these "asylum seekers" receiving money from the government, the town has developed a kind of scrip consisting of paper vouchers that are used for provisional payment then reimbursed when the real money arrives. These vouchers, designed to resemble genuine paper money, bear the images of Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Che Guevara!

Let's think about what's happening here objectively. European young people leave the town because they want to be self-sufficient, find stimulating work and not be reliant on state handouts. They are then replaced by third worlders who have no such scruples. Obviously, if there wasn't work for the indigenous European young people, there isn't going to be for the uneducated third-worlders either. But they don't care. They are happy to live at the expense of the European taxpayer. And this is all seen as somehow admirable. Even the Vatican newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, has apparently held up Riace as an example to be followed!

The Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, has denounced the lack of help given by the French state to the hundreds of Tunisian savages now living on the streets of Paris, having arrived in France via Lampedusa and then Italy. He has offered financial support to a range of non-governmental organisations who will support the Tunisians directly. Hotel accommodation has also been arranged for them.

I want to express the emotion and the anxiety inspired in me by the attitude of Europe, and of France in particular, faced with the arrival of just over 20,000 Tunisian immigrants in Italy.

It is particularly alarming to see the French authorities limit themselves, on this important subject which concerns the European Union as a whole, to bilateral talks characterised by narrow conclusions and subtexts clearly inspired by electoral considerations. This measures up neither to the magnitude of the situation, nor to history.

The Tunisian people have just lived through, without the support or the solidarity of the countries of Europe, a revolution whose consequences have already upset an entire region of the world. It is undergoing an economic crisis, aggravated by the loss of affection among Europeans for this country which is so dependent on tourism. However, faithful to its tradition of hospitality, it agrees to accept thousands of Libyan refugees, driven from their homes by war. Under these circumstances, to see Europe, and especially the French government, react with so much narrowness and so little humanity when confronted with the arrival of a few thousands Tunisian immigrants on our soil, inspires a veritable indignation in me.

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But, not limiting ourselves to dealing only with the urgent aspects, the duty of our country is to establish, in conjunction with the Tunisian authorities, a true logic of partnership. Young Tunisian graduates lack employment opportunities at the end of their studies: this was also one of the direct causes of the movement of January 2011. France should also welcome several thousand young Tunisians, as as envisaged in the cooperation accord signed by our two countries on 28 April 2008. These young people, who could thus begin their professional life in France, would then have a vocation to return to Tunisia to contribute to its development. [Translator's note: Sure, I bet they would.]

In the name of Paris, I invite the French authorities to respond with humanity and dignity to the expectation that thousands of Tunisians have of our country. It would be very serious in these circumstances if, several months after the jasmine revolution, history once again passed France and Europe by.

Delanoë was born in Tunis, Tunisia to a French-Tunisian father and a French mother. He moved to France with his family in his teens.

Delanoë was one of the first major French politicians to announce that he was gay, during a 1998 television interview (before being elected mayor).

He was stabbed on 5 October 2002 during the Nuit Blanche, a night of festivities in Paris, while mingling with the public. His assailant was a Muslim immigrant, Azedine Berkane, who reportedly told police that "he hated politicians, the Socialist Party, and homosexuals."

This is my translation of statements made by a Turkish association in Germany calling itself "Generation Zukunft e.V." (Future Generation). The association is organising a protest against Thilo Sarrazin in Berlin on June 21.

We are Turks or Turkish-descended students, employees, employers and academics who live and work in Germany. Just as other citizens feel attached to their home, citizens of Turkish descent also feel attached to this country, their country of origin. Within the framework of the laws of this country, we are proud to say: "Happy those who call themselves Turks." We are aware that we bear a responsibility not only to ourselves, but to Turkey. For this reason we have come together to call "Generation Zukunft e.V." (Future Generation Registered Association) into being.

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Best regards,Generation Zukunft e.V.M.Frankfurt (...)

(...) The organisation of young Muslim intellectuals "Generation Zukunft e.V." calls on all Turks in Germany:

You hired us as guest workers. We built your streets; set up your companies; repaired your houses. We worked day and night for the well-being of Germans, risked our health, served them, and today they want to hold us to account for it, saying it would have been cheaper if we had never immigrated to Germany as guest workers... They drum into us that we are not allowed to speak Turkish when we're sitting with our brothers and sisters in the playground. We are forbidden from living in a Turkish spirit or practising our centuries-old culture. They take our identity and force us to eat disgusting pig meat. German children always get the best toys and enjoy more freedom than our children of Turkish descent. A torture without comparison, a machinery of oppression and assimilation policy - planned and controlled by the revolting German establishment in order to crush Turks year after year for decades and to break their will and individuality. We are your slaves and prisoners, your prey animals...

We want autonomy for the Turks in Germany with the objective of independent government. We want place signs in Germany to be in Turkish. In supermarkets the information must be written in Turkish script... We want North-Rhine Westphalia to be the first federal state to become an autonomous Turkish republic. At a later stage, Berlin should also become an autonomous Turkish territory and the federal government should move to Bonn.

From a demographic perspective, Turks represent a considerable part of the new generation of the German population. Seen in this way, we are the future of Germany... The German government should slowly start to think deeply about who is sitting in its lap..."

This sounds almost too over-the-top to be true. But it does appear to be a genuine, registered association in Germany. You can see its registration here. Representatives of the organisation have previously been quoted in the Turkish press. And the coordination committee of the Turkish association wrote the following to the German organisation Christliche Mitte (Christian Centre), whose periodical brought this to light here.

Don't forget. As Germany lay in rubble and ashes, the foreigners came to build the country back up. The foreigners (Turks) brought the Germans prosperity. Without the foreigners, Germans would still be standing in their rubble today. From that follows the logical conclusion: the land belongs to those who built it. Foreigners are nationals. We want: to vote here, to work here, to participate in decisions here. Therefore: the next federal chancellor and ministers must be Turkish!!! The cross must disappear! Islam is the strongest force; Islam will prevail.

Usually, when we talk about the persistent bias of the BBC or refer to it as Al Babeera, we are speaking in jest. The contents of Wikileaks cables reported in the Telegraph, however, raise the possibility of the BBC having a more literal connection to the jihadists.

The files, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph, disclose that a phone number of someone at the BBC was found in the phone books and phones of a number of extremists seized by US forces.

“The number is associated with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).” Analysis by The Daily Telegraph suggests the number is one for Bush House, home of the BBC World Service.

The assessment continues that US forces uncovered many “extremist links” to this number, suggesting that extremists could have made contact with BBC employees who were sympathetic to extremists or had information on “ACM [anti-Coalition Militia] operations”.

What I find most amazing about these savages is the sense of entitlement they have. Europe has allowed so many of these primitives to come here that they now think they have some kind of moral right to do so.

One of the savages quoted here says "I am disgusted with France" because he's not getting enough free stuff.

In the Telegraph yesterday, Gilligan quoted one of seven savages huddled in a storm drain in Ventimiglia (on the Italian border with France) saying:

“We will get to France by any means possible,” says Hasin Abouda, one of the seven. “Our dreams are so strong that [the French president] Sarkozy will never stop us – and I’m talking not just for myself, but for all the Tunisian people.”

Can you believe the gall of these savages? And Jordan is supposedly one of those fabled "moderate" Muslim-dominated nations too.

Jordan has initiated a trial in absentia of the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on charges of blasphemy for his cartoon depicting the vicious con-man Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb. Around 30 Jordanian newspapers, radio stations and websites filed complaint against him. What a bunch of savages.

EXTRA state benefits paid to additional wives in polygamous marriages are to stop under the Government’s welfare crackdown, the Daily Express has learned.

Taxpayers will be astonished by the revelation that spouses in such marriages are entitled to payments under special rules agreed by Labour – and that one estimate puts the total bill at around £10million a year.

Two new polls confirm Marine Le Pen's dominating position in French politics. One published in Le Parisien indicates that she would go through to the second round of the presidential poll under almost every conceivable configuration of candidates. She leads in the first round polling against any possible rival except the Socialist and current IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Sarkozy would be knocked out in the first round in almost every scenario; only when faced with Ségolène Royal would he even limp through to the second round, behind Marine Le Pen.

Another poll published in the Journal du Dimanche shows that Marine Le Pen overwhelmingly leads in the working class vote, securing 34% of their voting intentions against 17% for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and 15% for Sarkozy. In the 2007 election, Sarkozy was able to gain a greater share of the working class vote than any other candidate, but much of his support there has collapsed and gone to Marine Le Pen.

Pope Benedict, in his Easter message to the world, on Sunday lamented that the day's joy was marred by war in Libya and urged Europe to welcome desperate migrants fleeing strife in north Africa.

The 84-year-old pope, marking his sixth Easter as Roman Catholic leader, presided at mass for more than 100,000 people in a St Peter's Square bedecked with 42,000 bright flowers and plants donated by Holland to symbolise hope and love.

But Benedict, who delivered Easter greetings in 65 languages, wove his sermon around the contrast between the joy of the Easter season and the wars, poverty and suffering around the world, particularly in north Africa.

"Here, in this world of ours, the Easter alleluia still contrasts with the cries and laments that arise from so many painful situations: deprivation, hunger, disease, war, violence," he said in his twice-annual "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message.

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He called for respect for human rights in the Middle East and north Africa and appealed to Europe to welcome those fleeing conflicts from those areas.

"May help come from all sides to those fleeing conflict and to refugees from various African countries who have been obliged to leave all that is dear to them," he said.

The savage North Africans now streaming across Italy towards Northern Europe are not refugees and they were not obliged to leave everything that was dear to them. They are economic migrants who, in almost all cases, have paid between 1000 and 2000 euros for the crossing. This is enough to feed a typical Tunisian family for a year or two. These people are not poor. Nor are they oppressed. The only mildly repressive government of Ben-Ali has been removed. Tunisians have the chance to construct their country anew, as they would like it to be. But the selfish savages now coming in droves across the water aren't interested in that. They just want some of Europe's cash.

It strikes me as paradoxical that when Christianity was in its heyday, its core tenets of turning the other cheek and showing compassion towards your enemy were largely ignored; while now that Christianity has only a vanishing, residual presence in Europe, the policies of European governments seem to be largely shaped aroud its suicidal spirit of infinite compassion.

The Italian police have arranged for the North African savages who have been coming through Lampedusa to be given free passage on the Italian rail service to the town of Ventimiglia, on the Italian border with France. Obviously, they just want the savages out of Italy and don't care what happens to the rest of Europe.

Nick Clegg, leader of the Lib Dhims, has been put in the charge of reforming the House of Lords. Unsurprisingly, he is arguing that religious peers, the Lords Spiritual, are out of place in the modern age. Countering this, the Conservatives argue that the Lords Spiritual should be retained but should no longer come exclusively from the Church of England. They are pushing for the representatives of other faith traditions to be present, too, including Islam.

One concern is that Mr Clegg wants to abolish the 26 bishops or "Lords Spiritual". They are all drawn from the established Church of England, and Mr Clegg will argue that they are an anomaly in a modern, democratic chamber.

The Conservatives hope to counter that by proposing that the Lords Spiritual become multi-faith.

That would mean a range of Christian denominations, including Roman Catholics and black Pentecostal leaders, sitting on a bench of "spiritual peers", whose numbers might also include representatives of other religions such as Islam.

The prospect of imams sitting alongside bishops is bound to prove highly controversial and raise fresh questions about the links between church and state.

Remember that this push to include Muslim imams in the House of Lords is coming from the Conservatives!

The Catholic church does not allow its priests to join secular legislative bodies; the Church of Scotland is organised along non-hierarchical lines, so it may well decline representation, if offered.

So this "reform" is likely to do nothing but bring in a bunch of evil beardies and offer them a new platform for waging their taqiyya jihad war against the infidel.

This demonstration took place yesterday in Rome. The Muslims are demanding that the local government pays the utility bills for their mosques! Notice the Good Friday timing. Their sneering supremacist mentality leads Muslims to attack or attempt to disrupt other faiths at times of special significance for them. For example, there is always a spike in Muslim atrocities around Christmas time.

This Easter jihadists in Indonesia planned to blow up a congregation of 3000 Christians in Indonesia until their plans were thwarted. And they planned to film it.

A PI poster also noted that every year a raucous, disruptive Turkish festival in Cologne is timed to coincide with Easter as if deliberately intended to disturb the peace of this Christian celebration.

The Élysée has let it be known that it intends to seek revision of the Schengen Treaty that governs the borderless free movement area comprising 400 million Europeans.

The governance of Schengen is faulty. We need to reflect on a mechanism that makes it possible to act when there is a systematic failure one of the European Union's external borders, qui permette, lorsqu'il y a une défaillance systémique à une frontière extérieure de l'Union européenne, allowing for a temporary suspension until the failure is rectified.

Despite this, the French are insisting that "it is not a question of renegotiating the treaty of Schengen, much less of abolishing it." They insist they will engage in joint "reflection" on the treaty with Italy at a meeting between the heads of state in Rome next week.

In Brussels, the Eurocrats are not happy. "Quite simply, the Italians are running the risk of blowing Schengen apart."

Thilo Sarrazin, whose best-selling book Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (German is Unmaking Itself), broke open the debate about Islam in Germany, remains a member of the left-leaning SPD party in the country. After a hearing in front of a party tribunal yesterday, the petitions to exclude him from the party were withdrawn.

Sarrazin apparently made a declaration that appropriately satisfied some of the concerns that had been raised about statements he had made.

In particular it does not correspond to my conviction to jeopardise equality of opportunity through selective assistance and training policies; as human beings, all children have the same great value.

My idea is not that these groups (immigrants), if some efforts are made and education policy is enhanced, cannot be integrated for genetic reasons.

Rather, he said, it was about "serious failings in immigration and integration and unfortunate trends in German demographics."

This was the second attempt to exclude Sarrazin from the SPD. Both have failed.

As predicted here weeks ago, the Schengen Area may be about to disintegrate. Reuters reports:

France is considering suspending its commitments under the Schengen treaty on border-free travel in the European Union due to an influx of migrants from Tunisia and Libya, a source close to the French presidency said on Friday.

"It seems to us that we need to think about a mechanism that would allow us, when there is a systematic disruption at one of the EU's external borders, to intervene with a temporary suspension for as long as the disruption lasts," the source told Reuters.

The Times today has an article (subscription) about the persecution of Christians around the world. Of course, it exerts itself to be even-handed and avoid placing the blame exclusively on Muslims.

Muslim and Hindu extremists are leading the campaigns against Christians

Virtually all of the most murderous persecution cited, however, of course involves Muslims. Most of the atrocity exhibition will be familiar to anyone who regularly reads the Counterjihad blogs. There was one idea I hadn't come across before, though: the Tenth Parallel.

Nigeria falls squarely across the Tenth Parallel, the line on the map that roughly separates the southernmost reaches of Islam from Christianity, introduced by colonial-era missionaries. This line stretches from West Africa to East Asia, through the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. And in all these countries, religious conflict has been fuelled by poverty, unemployment, the rise of fundamentalism (on both sides) and a clash of cultures.

Apparently this line on the map constitutes the front line of the jihad across much of Africa and even Asia.

There is a book about this confrontation called "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam" by Eliza Griswold, which I now intend to read. The review of the book in the New York Times notes that the author "candidly admits that she has discovered no neat theory to explain why people fight over religion", however, so I don't expect much in the way of deep analysis of the jihad, but hopefully it will contain some interesting information.

According to a forthcoming book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, Hussein's mother, Ann Dunham, was beaten by his Muslim stepfather, Lolo Soetero. The author, Janny Scott,

writes of an incident recounted by an Indonesian man called Saman. He overheard an argument in which Soetoro said to his wife: "I've warned you many times. Why are you still doing this?"

Afterwards, she appeared in the house with a towel pressed to her face and blood running from her nose. Scott writes: "Whether Lolo's worry was infidelity or simply what others might think is unclear from Saman's story."

The press secretary of the Russian immigration service, Konstantin Poltoranin, has been sacked for uttering unutterable truths.

Poltoranin was dismissed as the spokesman for the Federal Migration Service on Wednesday after he shared his views on interethnic relations in an interview with the BBC. “The survival of the white race is at stake,” Poltoranin said, adding that this problem is “palpable in Russia.”

The official said he did not understand policies of Western European countries which promote immigration from the Middle East and Africa. The situation in Russia should be different, he noted. Poltoranin said migrants use Russia as a transit on the way to the EU countries, and are not willing to integrate into Russian society.

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The dismissed official said he was neither nationalist nor racist and, while speaking about “the white race,” he meant Europeans. Russia should not repeat the mistakes of the EU states, he noted, suggesting that “race mixing should be carried out in the right way.”

There were a couple of interesting reports about crime in Switzerland today. The first was about youth crime in Zurich. According to the report, almost half of the youths convicted of crimes last year in Zurich were foreigners. Unfortunately, no further differentiation of the foreigners was made but I think that we can assume a fair number of them were of the Mohammedan persuasion.

More detail is available in the annual report of Champ-Dollon prison, in the Geneva canton. Here the quotient is even higher. Perhaps its proximity to France and Belgium and its language makes the French-speaking part of Switzerland more attractive to Mohammedans originating in North Africa.

In total 93% of the prisoners in this prison were foreigners and 55% were Muslims. 36.8% of the prisoners had an African nationality and 6.2% had a Middle Eastern nationality.

The Berlin Senator Ehrhart Körting (SPD - Socialists) has called for the German domestic intelligence agency, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) [MI5 equivalent], to abandon the use of the word "islamism" in its annual reports on dangers to the German constitution. It seems the German public do not sufficiently understand the difference between Islam and Islamism, despite the best efforts of academics to explain it. (The German people are not alone in this.) So, perhaps they should just refer to Islam or "Islamic extremists" instead? No, says the senator. That would stigmatise Islam. They should just be called "extremists".

The EU's Environment Committee today approved a new set of regulations governing the labelling of food. The new rules include compulsory labelling of meat from animals that were not stunned before slaughter. Obviously, this would generally include halal, although some so-called halal slaughter does involve stunning. This is only a stage in the progress of the draft legislation, which has not yet entered into force.

Meat labels should indicate where the animal was born, reared and slaughtered, say MEPs. In addition, meat from slaughter without stunning (in accordance with certain religious traditions), should be labelled as such and meat consisting of combined meat parts must be labelled "formed meat".

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Once the legislation is adopted, food businesses will have three years to adapt to the rules. They will have two more years, so five years in total, to apply the rules on the nutritional declaration.

I mentioned this in a post yesterday, but now we have video (French language). The pig's head was left in grounds intended for the future construction of a mosque in the Belgian city of Charleroi. It was half-buried beneath a large crucifix stuck into the ground (probably intended to simulate a grave marker) with a note that read: Here lies Mohammed.

Graffiti was also spray-painted on the external walls of the compound, depicting a pig, a mosque with red deletion lines running through it and the phrase (in English) "Islam = Danger". Looking at the photograph, there seems to be another piece of graffiti not mentioned in the article in Le Soir newspaper (too politically incorrect, I suppose). It's hard to make out, but I think it reads "Mohammed = Paedophile".The idiot mayor of the town, Jean-Jacques Viseur, proclaimed, "Faced with such an act, we are all Muslims."

The flows of desperate people across the Mediterranean have been a response to political instability in the Arab world. But they are likely to be followed later this century by environmental refugees, as runaway climate change spreads chaos across Sub-Saharan Africa. Europe needs to get its act together when it comes to dealing – efficiently and humanely – with refugees from the south. What we are witnessing now could well be merely a taste of what is to come.

It really is striking how lame-brained the Independent is on immigration. It makes the Guardian look tough-minded and realistic. And it's not just the Independent itself but its readers. You see the same kind of drivel in the comments; petty points and shallow arguments that were past their sell-by date 5-6 years ago on the Guardian (including the comments) are still taken seriously on the Independent. It's like they're in a time warp. Somehow the whole paper reminds me of the Lib Dhims.

A group in Lyon is carrying out direct action to protest against halal meat. The Quick restaurant chain has become a target because of its decision to go halal-only in some areas. Last year the group invaded a Quick restaurant wearing pig masks to signal their dissent. A larger protest billed "The March of the Pigs", whose participants will also wear pig masks, is scheduled to take place in May.

Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, has claimed that Israel was behind the recent murders of Juliano Mer Khamis and Vittorio Arrigoni, two dhimmi peace activists in the "Occupied Territories".

It is no coincidence then that both Juliano and Vittorio should die within two weeks. Both, at the hands of unknown Palestinian ‘cells.’ As they say on children’s TV – tell us boys and girls what’s wrong with this picture?

Israel’s supporters will doubtless feel affronted at the assertion that Vittorio was murdered by those almost certainly in the pay of the Jewish State. But they can’t have their dark ops cake and eat it too. Not this time. Too many of us have our eyes open to the filthy tactics employed by Israel every time they come under intellectual attack. And there is no doubt that Israeli Apartheid is losing traction by the day.

Still unsure who was behind Vittorio’s murder? Well, how often have the Israeli press lauded and applauded ‘covert ops’ in the Occupied Territories?

What a sad bitch. It really is quite extraordinary to see the entrancing power that this evil ideology has over people.

Graffitti has been sprayed on a mosque in Birkenhead. The messages read:

“Islam = Murder"

and

"Britain for the British"

As you might expect, tackling this outrageous thought crime is a major priority for Plod. A police spokeman said:

Merseyside Police do not tolerate any form of racist beheviour and would urge anyone who has any information on hate crime to contact us.

Again, this shows the massive political indoctrination that our police have been subjected to. Not all forms of racist behaviour are crimes. If a white person decides to marry only another white person, or a brown Hindu of Indian descent decides to marry only another brown Hindu of Indian descent, this is racist behaviour. It is not a crime. It is not for the police to make blanket statements like "[We] do not tolerate any form of racist behaviour".

More interesting than the article itself was the comment beneath it in the Wirral Globe:

I was also born and bred in this area.I would never ever condone this sort of racial hatred.

However, the Asian community who use this mosque show no signs of integrating with their fellow-residents of Wirral. Month after month additional families move in to what was once an all-white lower middle class area of Birkenhead known as Clifton Park. I hate to use the words "little Calcutta" but to many this is just as the area now seems. Surely this can't be good for race relations, with a growing number of immigrant families concentrated on such a small area.

Furthermore, the secrecy surrounding the conversion of a council-owned building (Beechcroft in Whetstone Lane) into a mosque in itself arouses suspicion. Why is its cost (after all, it is owned by all the people of Wirral, not just the tiny Muslim community) not allowed to be published on the grounds of 'commercial sensitivity'?

This whole issue needs to be addressed before we allow a major race relations problem to develop in front of our eyes.

Sorry if this sounds barking mad - I am not BNP or anything like it. I just love my home town and am very concerned about these developments.

In light of the recent controversy in Britain about the right of hotel owners to reject bookings from certain guests, specifically a gay couple, a recent court decision in Germany is of some interest.

A hotel in Brandenburg had refused to accept a booking from Udo Voigt, the leader of the German far-right party, the NPD. Voigt and his wife had been intending to take a brief holiday. When their booking was refused, he decided to sue the hotel. Unsuccessfully.

The court decided that political convictions were sufficient grounds for a hotel to refuse a booking from a guest. It would be interesting to know whether this reasoning also applies to Muslims, since Islam is clearly a political ideology as well as a religion.

The Guardianistas are fearful of UKIP realising its potential as a Counterjihad party. They analysed UKIP voters and distinguished two major categories:

"Strategic defectors" are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle-class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives. They are driven principally by Euroscepticism (unsurprisingly) and, to a lesser extent, concerns about immigration.

The "core loyalists", on the other hand, stick with Ukip at all elections and are a very different electorate. They are more working class, more economically insecure, and more likely to say they come from Labour-voting families. In all these respects, as our chart below shows, they are more similar to the BNP's support base than the Conservatives'.

A similar pattern emerges when we look at their attitudes. Core loyalists are intensely Eurosceptic, as we might expect, but they are also much more deeply disaffected with mainstream politics than the strategic defectors. Core loyalists regard all the main parties as the same and politicians as deeply corrupt. Anxiety over immigration also emerges as a more powerful motive for this group, although they are distinct from BNP voters on the issue of racism.

These core loyalists have the same concerns as BNP voters but are less racist:

While we found many BNP supporters quite willing to endorse statements such as "black people are intellectually inferior", Ukip core loyalists were much more reluctant – though they expressed higher levels of agreement with such statements than either mainstream Conservatives or strategic Ukip supporters.

Ukip in domestic elections, then, are the BNP minus the racism. Ukip has appropriated the BNP's most potent campaign themes – opposition to immigration, demands for Muslim integration, attacks on the political class – but is free of fascist baggage.

According to the authors UKIP has "an unprecedented opportunity to build a national presence."

They have a large electorate of socially conservative, Eurosceptic, anti-elitist, anti-immigration voters virtually to themselves.

The BNP's bankruptcy and infighting leaves no competition on the far right; the compromises of coalition limit the Conservatives' ability to compete from the centre-right; and Labour's divisions over immigration leave the centre left silent on an issue which is of major concern to voters.

Both the Guardian and the True Finns are telling Nigel Farage that he has an open goal. Does he have what it takes to stick the ball in the net?

Andrew Ryan, a former soldier and a current EDL member, has been sentenced to 70 days in prison for stealing a Koran and setting fire to it in Carlisle city centre.

Andrew Ryan had previously admitted religiously aggravated harassment and theft of a Koran from a library.

The 32-year-old, of Summerhill, said he had been "shocked" watching a Muslim burning a poppy on Remembrance Day.

Shoppers and schoolchildren witnessed the burning, outside the old Town Hall, on 19 January.

Describing it as a case of "theatrical bigotry", Judge Gerald Chalk said "It was pre-planned by you as you stole the book deliberately. You went out to cause maximum publicity and to cause distress."

Ryan struggled with security guards in court after the sentence was passed.

While being handcuffed he shouted: "What about my country? What about burning poppies?"

About 10 people were in court to support Ryan, and as they left the court they shouted "do you call this justice?".

Just to be clear, Ryan was sentenced to 70 days' imprisonment specifically for the Koran burning. The actual theft of the book was treated separately. He was sentenced to 30 days for that, to run concurrently with the longer sentence.

I posted yesterday about the great success of the True Finns party in the recent Finnish elections. Although I knew they were generally anti-immigration and anti-Islam, I didn't know they had a leading Counterjihad activist in their own ranks, or that he has now been elected to the Finnish parliament.

The man in question is Jussi Halla-aho. He runs a popular Finnish-language blog, Scripta, which is said to be the most-read political blog in Finland, and has also posted at the leading Counterjihad blog Gates of Vienna. Halla-aho was previously prosecuted and convicted for correctly describing the con man Mohammed as a paedophile and for making a negative generalisation about Somalis to illustrate the hypocrisy of an establishment that is happy to entertain negative generalisations about Finns or other Europeans but not brown people.

He is shown speaking in this older news clip about the growth of immigrant ghettoes in Finland.

I will listen to Sibelius' Complete Symphonies today to celebrate the success of the True Finns:

The controversial Piss Christ photograph, which depicted a crucifix immersed in urine, has been destroyed at a museum in Avignon. A group of young men, armed with picks and screwdrivers, apparently destroyed it early on Sunday morning. One other photograph by the same artist, Andres Serrano, was also destroyed. On Saturday, a group of around 1500 people marched in protest at the exhibition and the fact that it was being supported by public funds.

The museum has been closed but is due to re-open on Tuesday. It will continue to exhibit the photographs in their destroyed state.

It is worthy of note that this same photograph was exhibited in Avignon in 2007 without any noticeable reaction. Europeans are getting tired of seeing Muslim sensibilities pandered to and their own ignored, it seems.

Le Monde has some amusing quotes from the owner of the exhibition space:

I am persecuted by telephone. I've received 30,000 emails. I'm not exaggerating, 30,000 emails from fundamentalists ... This ignorance, this intolerance. It's the Middle Ages coming back big time.

Haha! Now can you imagine him saying the same thing if it was Muslims?

France closed its borders to trains from Italy yesterday to deal with an expected spike in traffic of North African illegals, most of whom have made their way into Europe via Lampedusa. On the Italian side of the border, where the illegals congregate, hundreds of retarded French and Italian human rights activists had organised a demonstration in support of the savages. They intended to accompany the North Africans into France aboard a "Dignity Train" in order to "challenge government barriers to open the borders, guarantee free access to European soil and remind people that no human being is illegal".

When France stopped the trains running, however, these fools formed a procession instead, shouting "Freedom! Freedom!" and "We are all illegal immigrants!". They intended to reach the French consulate, but the carabinieri stopped them.

Later on Sunday evening, when the fuss had died down, France let the trains run again.

The anti-immigration, anti-EU, Counterjihad party True Finns have triumphed in the Finnish elections, achieving around 19% of the vote. This puts it on a par with the two main establishment parties of the left and right who will now, almost certainly, have to adapt their policies to suit the True Finns to at least some degree. How much influence the True Finns have depends on the coalition agreement that is made. This is potentially of interest to the rest of the EU as the True Finns have threatened to veto the EU bail-out proposals for heavily indebted countries like Greece.

Overall, the True Finns quadrupled their vote compared to the last general election. Immigrants form only 3% of the Finnish population but the Finns have clearly seen what has happened in the rest of Europe and do not want their country turned into a third-world cesspit too.

While reading background material on the True Finns, I came across an article on the BBC website, written two days ago, and was simply staggered by its lack of objectivity.

Here are a few quotes:

There is also a widespread view that immigration is damaging Finland and Finnish culture.

Parties tend to follow popular trends among the electorate, even if they have an authoritarian streak. That is a general weakness of democracy.

So the BBC is now propagandising against democracy?

There is even more astounding bias later on:

They believe that a low birth rate is not solved by immigration, as that results in problems and foreigners do not fit into Finnish culture. Instead, young women should study less and spend more time giving birth to pure Finnish children. That is like a faint echo of Nazi ideology.

Wow. I may actually make a formal complaint to the BBC about this. We almost expect bias from the BBC now but this over-the-top propaganda almost beggars belief.

[WARNING: Video is in French]According to this news report, there are 11.5 million immigrants in France, which is 19% of the population. Astonishing. The breakdown of the immigration figures seems very similar to that in Britain, with the marriage & family reunion and student pretexts predominating while work and asylum immigration are on a smaller scale.

The Independent today contains a series of vignettes of immigrants who are supposedly making a positive contribution to Britain. The introduction of the article makes the following ridiculous claim:

But the stories also hint at the economic and cultural benefits immigration has brought. Immigrants contribute £6bn to the UK economy, according to Treasury figures.

The idea that immigration has contributed only £6 billion to the British economy is almost mind-boggling in its sheer foolishness. It shows clearly how intellectually meagre the pro-immigration arguments are. £6 billion is equivalent to about 0.25 per cent of British GDP in one year. Would it really have been worth allowing all of these savages to come to our country, take over our cities, set crime levels sky-rocketing, introduce a terrorist threat and destroy the natural cohesion of our nation for the laughable sum of £6 billion? We give more than that away in foreign aid in one year.

Of course, the journalist is simply clueless. Migrants must have contributed far more than that to the British economy. Most likely this figure was lifted from the article published in the Guardian yesterday by the risible Medhi Hasan.

A government study in 2007 estimated that migrants contributed about £6bn to output growth the previous year. That's equivalent to a 1.5% cut in the basic rate of income tax. Can we talk about this?

Let's think about this. The Independent journalist has failed to grasp the simple fact that the figure Hasan quoted refers to one year only and has instead interpreted it as the total contribution migrants have made to the British economy. But let's consider Hasan's claim, now. In recent years Britain has been experiencing immigration of around 500,000 - 600,000 thousand per year. Let's say 600,000 to simplify the calculation. If all those people did was raise GDP by £6 billion, it would mean they were earning on average £10,000 each year. This is well below the average wage in Britain, meaning they were actually reducing our per capita GDP just by being here. MigrationWatch has calculated that migrants must earn £27K per year before they become net contributors. Those earning 10K per year are accessing a range of government services and benefits their tax contributions don't pay for. So Hasan's argument, intended to demonstrate how immigration is enriching us, in fact does the opposite.

The Guardian offered another mind-bogglingly clueless response to Cameron's speech from the immigrant Zrinka Bralo. The line this time was that immigration was inevitable, like rain: just something we have to put up with:

As long as we think that immigrants can somehow be stopped before they reach our shores, we will be stuck in this circular debate of numbers, controls and blame.

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A true debate will be possible when we all accept that immigration is an inescapable global phenomenon.

In an editorial, the Independent even contrived to blame the British victims of Muslim ethnic cleansing:

Mr Cameron failed to mention that, just as some migrant communities have failed to integrate, so have some host communities. The "white flight" seen in places such as Bradford and East London has been well documented. If separatism from ethnic minorities is deplorable, so too surely is its counterpart. The Prime Minister gave the unfortunate impression that he regards integration as a one-way street.

I have heard so many accounts of Europeans being subjected to campaigns of harassment from Muslim colonist populations, campaigns which almost invariably end up by forcing them out of the area, that it would seem that Muslims pursue this collectively as a deliberate tactic. The Belgian Green Party MP, Luckas Vander Taelen, even wrote about the harassment he and other Europeans had experienced in a Mohammedan-dominated area of Brussels. He had initially been a multi-cult believer; unlike most of them, however, he actually lived in an area the immigrants came to. The experience forced him to change his views. He described how women were regularly insulted as "whores" and "sluts"; how Europeans would hurry to do their shopping in the mornings because no one would dare go out after 2pm; how little children would spit at him on the street and tell him to piss off.

Yet when Europeans eventually flee the Muslim-colonised areas, the Utopians blame the victims and rationalise it as racism.

Overall, the response of the left press to Cameron's speech clearly illustrates the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the proponents of mass immigration. These people like to present themselves as a moral and intellectual elite holding back the seething mass of dumb, uninformed plebs. In reality, though, it is they who are uninformed. Their arguments evaporate upon the slightest scrutiny. Yet still it is their hands on the tiller, steering our countries towards destruction.

Islamic extremists in Britain are ordering women to cover up and issuing threats to gays as they seek to impose Taliban-style sharia law.

Police are investigating a series of religiously motivated incidents, including the case of an Asian shop assistant who claims to have received death threats for refusing to wear a veil even though she is not a practising Muslim.

The pharmacy where she works has been told it will be boycotted unless she is forced to dress more modestly or sacked. Zealots have also daubed black paint on posters for the H&M fashion chain, which feature women in bikinis.

The extremists appear to have taken the law into their own hands in Tower Hamlets, east London, one of the poorest areas of Britain where native white people are in a minority.

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“If we keep going this way, England will be more like Afghanistan,” said the shop assistant who has been targeted by fundamentalists. “This is supposed to be the land of freedom. Yet I now fear for my security.”

The woman, 31, a mother of one who does not want to be identified, has worked at the pharmacy in Whitechapel for four years. Although she came to Britain from Bangladesh in 2006, she is an atheist and is married to a Christian human rights worker. She dresses in western clothes.

Three weeks ago, an Asian man in his forties approached her boss and told him that she ought to cover her head and wear longer robes. “If she keeps working here and continues to dress like that, then we will boycott you because this is a Muslim area,” the chemist’s owner was told.

When the woman approached the media about her case, there was a further backlash. She says another Asian man — this time younger — came into the pharmacy and started shouting at her.

“He said, ‘If you keep doing these things, we are going to kill you.’ It is the Muslim jihad [holy war],” said the woman. Her employer — a Hindu — told her to go on “holiday” for a few days and she now fears she will lose her job or be moved to another branch of the chemist.

The woman was interviewed by police last Thursday and her case has been taken up by Rushanara Ali, the Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. “Why should I have to wear a hijab [headscarf] or burqa? I haven’t done anything wrong,” said the woman.

Homophobic stickers have also sprung up in the borough. They state: “Arise and warn. Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment.”

The campaign follows the defacing of posters at bus shelters in the area. Adverts featuring female models for H&M were splattered with black paint. Posters for a Bollywood film called Kites, which showed its stars in a passionate embrace, were also targeted. Police have charged three men with religiously aggravated criminal damage. Similar acts of crude censorship are believed to have been carried out in parts of Birmingham.

Paul Rickett, Metropolitan police borough commander for Tower Hamlets, said there was nothing to link all the incidents. “I am saddened that there are a small minority of people who do not wish to respect the lifestyle choices of others,” he said.

Ghaffar Hussain, head of outreach and training at the Quilliam Foundation, an antiextremism think tank, described the intimidation as the work of “Talibanesque thugs”. “This minority believe they have the right to enforce their fringe interpretation of Islam on others.”

Muslim peer Baroness (sic) Uddin refuses to pay back the money she stole.

The disgraced Labour peer Baroness Uddin is facing fresh censure from the House of Lords over her failure to pay back a penny of the £125,000 she owes the taxpayer for cheating on her expenses.

The Lords authorities have sent a string of letters to Uddin demanding repayment of the cash following her 18-month suspension from the Lords last October.

However, Uddin, Britain’s first female Muslim peer, has argued through lawyers that she does not have the means to pay the money. The case is now expected to be referred back to the Lords privileges and conduct committee which will consider whether to impose fresh sanctions.

Of course she no longer has the cash. She used it to build a palatial mansion in her native Bangladesh (pictured above), "which is decorated with Italian marble and bears a crest similar to that of the Lords on its gates."

Sources say the holiday home, which overlooks the river in the market town of Jawa Bazar, was built after Uddin was made a Labour working peer in 1998 and cost about £140,000.

Meanwhile, this evil bitch lives in a council house:

Uddin’s home in London is a housing association property intended for people on low incomes who cannot afford to live in the area. There are long waiting lists for social housing in the East End, which Uddin has herself spoken about in the Lords.

Uddin was not prosecuted for her blatant theft, after claiming her main residence was a home which did not even have the water or electricity connected, but "was forced to make a personal statement of apology to the Lords and was suspended until Easter 2012."

Being located in Italy, has the Vatican absorbed the Italian perspective on the Lampedusa problem?

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 15, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The closing of Europe's borders, given the wave of immigrants and refugees resulting from the conflicts and social crisis in several countries of North Africa, has disappointed the Holy See.

"There is no doubt that Europe has disappointed profoundly" in this emergency, said the Italian cardinal. "Europe has lost its profound spirit, a spirit of great solidarity first of all among the peoples of Europe and then among other peoples. Let us think of Africa, which it has abused so much: it seems that Europe has turned its back on it."

The air attacks against Libya's regime, led by European nations, have caused the flight by land from that country of 500,000 people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Tens of thousands of people have taken to the sea to arrive in Italy or Malta.

According to UNHCR, it is feared that in the crossing from Africa to Europe over the past two weeks, 800 emigrants have lost their lives. In addition to the 250 who died in the shipwreck April 6 in the Sicilian Channel, nothing is known of the 560 people who took to the sea in three barges that never arrived at their destination.

Despite this emergency, France and other European countries have prevented the passage of these refugees and immigrants from Italy, leaving to the latter the management of the crisis.

"We wish to raise our voice so that this Europe will find its soul again," said Cardinal Bertone, "a soul of great solidarity and generosity with these peoples who face an emergency and great needs."